Old Lady Leary

Before singing this song, divide the group into 4 and have a different counselor or person lead each section, cuing them for their part. Sing the first part together, then break it up in order. Groups 1 & 2 can sing in normal voices, but it’s fun for group 3 to sing their lines in a high pitch and for group 4 to sing their lines in a deep gruff firefighter voice.

Late last night, while we were all in bed.
Old lady Leary left a lantern in the shed
and when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said
“It’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight”

The whole song is here. . .there are a few different ways to sing it. . .

1) you could just sing the first verse, and be done with it.
2) you can add each “group” onto the song and sing it 4 or 5 times in a row, adding each time, so that the first time you sing it, you end at fire, then you sing it again and say fire fire fire and water water water, so that at the end you’re saying everything (fire, water, save, and jump).
3) you can sing it so that for a noun in the line you do an action (bed= tuck your hands under face in a mimic of a pillow, hung up lantern= pretend to hang up a lantern, kicked=kick, wink=wink, hot= fan yourself, fire= explode your hands like fireworks). sing it all the way through first, then the next time instead of singing bed, mimic it and so on. . .
or come up with your own!